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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the beginning of Section 5, what state does Woolf describe the sun as being in?
(a) Its most merciful.
(b) Its most uncompromising.
(c) Nearly its brightest.
(d) Its dullest.

2. How old is Jinny when the reader encounters her in Section 6?
(a) "Just forty."
(b) "Nearly thirty-five."
(c) "Not yet thirty."
(d) "Past thirty."

3. In Section 8, who contends that the characters have "destroyed something by our presence"?
(a) Rhoda.
(b) Bernard.
(c) Louis.
(d) Neville.

4. Who takes the children for a "brisk walk"?
(a) Mrs. Constable.
(b) Miss Hudson.
(c) Mis Curry.
(d) Biddy.

5. What do we learn from the end of Louis's major monologue in Section 6?
(a) That he and Neville have begun an affair.
(b) That he is having an affair with Jinny.
(c) That he has moved in with Susan.
(d) That he is having an affair with Rhoda.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what kind of historical figures does Louis compare himself in Section 6?

2. What is Susan doing when she begins her Section 7 monologue?

3. What is the dominant image in the beginning of Section 2?

4. What are the boys doing when the monologues in Section 2 return to their perspective?

5. What are the characters doing as their monologues progress in Section 8?

(see the answer key)

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